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--Apple-Mail-183--1024938126 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed At the risk of confusing you readers further: Of our two species of tent caterpillars, only one is a tent-former. Malacosoma americanum is the Eastern Tent Caterpillar, and the caterpillars communally spin a tent of silk in a crotch between two or more branches, not in the foliage. But the Forest Tent Caterpillar, Malacosoma disstria, is mostly found as solitary larvae; however, it/they are known to march communally and to aggregate on tree-trunks, but never form a tent or silken nest. Cheers from Jim the Other, in Wolfville. Jim Edsall wrote on Aug. 15/13: > > No. Tent Caterpillers occur in spring and early summer, the two > species are Malacasoma disstria and Malacasoma americana. They are > Lasiocampids closely related to the silkmoths. The Fall Webworm > occurs in late summer. the species is Hyphantria cunea a Tiger > Moth (Arctiidae) > > Jim Edsall > Dartmouth, N.S. > check out my website at > http://www3.ns.sympatico.ca/jim.edsall/ --Apple-Mail-183--1024938126 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset=US-ASCII <html><body style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; = -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">At the risk of confusing you = readers further: Of our two species of tent caterpillars, only one is a = tent-former. Malacosoma americanum is the Eastern Tent = Caterpillar, and the caterpillars communally spin a tent of silk in a = crotch between two or more branches, not in the foliage. But the = Forest Tent Caterpillar, Malacosoma disstria, is mostly found as = solitary larvae; however, it/they are known to march communally and to = aggregate on tree-trunks, but never form a tent or silken = nest.<div><br></div><div>Cheers from Jim the Other, in = Wolfville.<br><div><br><div>Jim Edsall wrote on Aug. = 15/13:</div><blockquote type=3D"cite"><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: = 14px; "><br></div> <span class=3D"Apple-style-span" = style=3D"border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: = Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: = normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; = text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: = normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: = 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; = -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: = auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div>No. Tent = Caterpillers occur in spring and early summer, the two = species are Malacasoma disstria and Malacasoma americana. They are = Lasiocampids closely related to the silkmoths. The Fall = Webworm occurs in late summer. the species is Hyphantria = cunea a Tiger Moth (Arctiidae)</div><div><br>Jim Edsall<span = class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>Dartmouth, = N.S.<br>check out my website at<span = class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><a = href=3D"http://www3.ns.sympatico.ca/jim.edsall/">http://www3.ns.sympatico.= ca/jim.edsall/</a></div></span></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>= --Apple-Mail-183--1024938126--
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